This is probably just a lack of fundamental understanding on my part but some communities I want to subscribe to; I’ll hit the sub button, it won’t change status for a while, I’ll refresh and it’ll say “Subscribe Pending”
A couple communities have been stuck like this for a day or so now. But other communities I’ll mash the sub button a bit more then it’ll switch over to “Joined”
Can communities be setup such that subscribers have to be approved by a comm mod or has my subscription request fallen into the void on the backend somewhere and I should try to subscribe again?
Thanks for any clarifications about this!
I’m noticing the same thing for some (but not all) subscriptions to communities on other instances. I’ll try retrying for some of them though, hadn’t considered it.
I’ve been wondering about this too - sometimes it subscribes immediately, sometimes it gets stuck pending. Hopefully the pending ones work themselves out per the other comments…
Hey there! I believe this is just server load related. If you leave the page alone, it will eventually change to ✅ Joined. That has been my experience at least.
Just a wild guess, because I haven’t looked at the code / implementation yet in GitHub, but It’s very possible they use a message queue to store subscription requests for processing. That is what the observed behavior would lead me to believe at least. If that’s not the case, the delayed sub would be complete server delay while the request is processing…
Ahh gotcha that makes sense. Thank you for explaining!
No problem. Man, I should really log off… this totally is indistinguishable from reddit and I might end up spending the entire day here at this rate.
Also, jealous of your beehaw.org address. My signup got messed up and I don’t know my password, and the forgot password link doesn’t seem to work.
Did you get an email to say you were approved?
I did not get any emails from beehaw.org. It was also around the time of that email bug where rejected user emails were not getting sent out, and users ended up in a banned and unactionable state.
Oh god, that’s a while ago. What was your username? I’m willing to dig through the big application queue we have, I suppose…
I tried to reset my password one more time. It worked! I’m finally able to log in to beehaw.org!
The key was that I couldn’t reset my password on my iPad in any browser (Chrome, Safari, or Firefox) either. But I tried the reset password flow one more time on my phone, and it suddenly worked. I’m not sure why Safari on an iPhone would work but Safari on an iPad or MacBook Pro would not. 🤷🏻♂️
Wait… perhaps it could have something to do with cookies? Now that I’m logged into beehaw.org, I can’t log in to other instances in another tab anymore. Worth some investigation.
Anyway, thank you for your help! Very much appreciated.
Glad you managed it!
